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China alone had over 40% of the world's capacity by 2022. [3] Wind power is used on a commercial basis in more than half of all the countries of the world. [4] Denmark produced 55% of its electricity from wind in 2022, a larger share than any other country. Latvia's wind capacity grew by 75%, the largest percent increase in 2022. [3]
Wind power showed potential for replacing natural gas in electricity generation on a cost basis. By 2021 wind energy produced 4872 terawatts-hour, 2.8% of the total primary energy production [51] and 6.6% of the total electricity production. [52] Technological innovations continue to drive new developments in the application of wind power.
The world's first megawatt-size wind turbine on Grandpa's Knob, Castleton, Vermont The Smith–Putnam wind turbine [2] was the world's first megawatt-size wind turbine.In 1941 it was connected to the local electrical distribution system on Grandpa's Knob in Castleton, Vermont, US.
A wind turbine in China has set a new world record for the most amount of electricity generated in a single day, after operating during typhoon conditions.. The Goldwind GWH252-16MW turbine, which ...
This is a list of countries and dependencies by electricity generation from renewable sources each year.. Renewables accounted for 28% of electric generation in 2021, consisting of hydro (55%), wind (23%), biomass (13%), solar (7%) and geothermal (1%).
Wind energy penetration is the fraction of energy produced by wind compared with the total generation. Wind power's share of worldwide electricity usage in 2021 was almost 7%, [ 55 ] up from 3.5% in 2015.
The Gansu Wind Farm in China is the largest wind farm in the world, with a target capacity of 20,000 MW by 2020. Part of the Biglow Canyon Wind Farm , with a turbine under construction The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is an 845 megawatt (MW) wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon .
GE Wind Energy: Haliade-X 14.7 Prototype Dogger Bank C (United Kingdom) Prototype deployed October 2019 as 12 MW, uprated to 13 MW in October 2020, then to 14 MW in October 2021, then to 14.7MW. [21] Siemens Gamesa: SG 14-222 DD 14.7 Commercially deployed April 2024 [22] Moray West GE Wind Energy: Haliade-X 13 Commercially deployed August 2023